[issue348] boot fails on grml 1.0-5 and 1.1-rc1 on a toshiba portege m100

[Darshaka Pathirana]

Darshaka Pathirana <dpat at syn-net.org> added the comment:

On 04/23/2009 07:48 PM, Michael Prokop wrote:
> * Darshaka Pathirana <bts at bts.grml.org> [20090423 19:31]:
> 
>> Ok. I was able to test the a daily build (2009-04-02) on my notebook.
> 
> Great, thanks.

Oh. I did a mistake in labeling my CD. The daily build is dated with
(20)090319.

>> And again: booting took exactly 67 secconds!
>>
>> I also booted Ubuntu 9.04 beta - alternate which did not show such a
>> delay.
> 
> Ok
> 
>> That said I did not test the bootfrom=... bootoption and honestly have
>> no clue how to use it. Do I have to guess the device where I would
>> like to start from?
> 
> When booting grml you'll see something like "Mounting live system on
> /dev/sd0" -> try booting with "grml bootfrom=/dev/sd0", assuming
> that /dev/sd0 is the device. :)

Ok. My system shows "/dev/scd0". I tried that and there was no
difference.

> The long delay happens at "searching for grml...", right?

No. As stated in msg1710 the delay happens after blanking the screen
after the last dot of the initrd-loading process and before seeing the
grml-logo. Bug I get some warning after that. I've attached (dirty)
a screenshot.

Greetings,
- Darsha

----------
assignedto: mika
files: grml-boot-problem.jpg, info.tar.bz2
messages: 1027, 1682, 1710, 1811, 2121, 2203, 2205, 2208, 954, 957, 963, 965, 976
nosy: jkirk, mika
priority: bug
status: need-eg
title: boot fails on grml 1.0-5 and 1.1-rc1 on a toshiba portege m100
topic: core, kernel

_____________________________________
GRML issue tracker <bts at bts.grml.org>
<http://bts.grml.org/grml/issue348>
_____________________________________
-------------- next part --------------
A non-text attachment was scrubbed...
Name: grml-boot-problem.jpg
Type: image/jpeg
Size: 156275 bytes
Desc: not available
URL: <http://ml.grml.org/pipermail/bugs-changes/attachments/20090428/6478c6e1/attachment-0001.jpg>